Greg Maddux Quotes

I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be.

I know, if I would have won 'X-Factor' and if I would have continued in that lane, I would have spiraled out of control. Performing on there was good, but it wasn't me. It was me compromising for the judges, just different people around.

I feel like I never get to play any version of myself or get to be a normal person.

I've spent twenty-eight years doing what everyone around me expected me to do...being what everyone around me has expected me to be. And it's horrid to be someone else's vision of yourself.

I want to show my true self, not how I want to be seen by others.

I had a moment a few years ago where I wasn't sure if I was acting for myself or because people expected it of me. A bit of a crisis of faith, I suppose. I did some soul-searching, took a break and decided I was going to live my life only for me.

Today I will realize that I'm powerless over other people's expectations of me. I'll think about what I want and consider that how I respond to others' needs will affect the course of my life. I will own my own power and choose the course that's right for me.

Don't let what other people think decide who you are.

I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.

Competition impedes creativity because you present yourself in a way that's going to been seen by somebody outside of you. You're not very much yourself and it limits you.

Just keep doing 'you', and being who you are and doing what feels natural to you.

If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?

My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself

I think the most radical thing you can do is be yourself.

There's no reason trying to fit in: Just be you. That was the biggest thing for me, just being me, and finding what works for me.

I just like showing people - and this might be at the root of everything that I've done - that I don't want to be looked at as a baseball robot.

I believe in just being yourself, and the whole kit and caboodle comes with it.

I can't just pretend to be someone else all my life. I have to mix it up.

I'd been so heavily influenced by Em, but artists that don't grow out of that don't go anywhere. Ultimately, I came to understand that what Eminem stood for above all else was 'be yourself.'

Being favorite counts for nothing. I am focusing on doing the best time of my life, whether or not it's the best in history or the best in the competition.

I think everybody needs to find out who they are and who their, like, inner superhero is, or who you like to be. The world would be a better place if everyone was doing what the hell they wanted to do and being who they wanted to be.

I'm usually rough during Spring Training. My Spring Training numbers aren't very good, but I never expect them to be.

I want the best names in the division. The fear brings out the best performance in myself.

A lot of my life has been, 'Fran plays football.' But no, Fran is a normal human being, and I need to live my life.